Twas the Day Before Diet ...
Monday my wife decided that we were going to go back on a diet. It's something that we've both been talking about, but there has always been a reason to wait. With my birthday party coming up, I would have been content to wait until afterwards, but as it is I'll be bad one day and then jump back into the swing of things on Monday. But in many ways, there's no time like the present. The sooner we start the sooner the weight will come off.
Yesterday before we went to the grocery store, she still hadn't decided on which diet we were going to do. On one hand, there is the South Beach Diet. We've done this before and lost weight doing it. Once we have our house set up properly (no tempting treats, plenty of nuts and veggies, good snack foods), it is actually pretty easy to maintain. The toughest part is going out to eat either at a friend's house or at a restaurant. But we have friends who are also doing South Beach and Oliver is getting too old to take to restaurants, so we're that much ahead of the game.
The other diet that we looked at was Body For Life. It's a diet and exercise program that emphasizes eating the right foods and working out the right way. We had done that one several years ago and done pretty well with it. The thing that we liked most about that one is that every week you have one "free" day where you can eat whatever it is that you want. It makes being good the rest of the week easier when you know that you only have so many days before you can be bad again. The biggest obstacle is the exercise program. It's as obvious as the flab on my gut that I need to start working out more, but it becomes difficult to find the time with a toddler in the house. We could exercise in the morning, but if we were both exercising and he woke up, we'd have to drop what we were doing to take care of him. Exercising at night after he's gone to sleep might end up being the solution, but it is so easy to make excuses.
My wife had looked at the Paleo Diet, but if she had picked that one she would have been dieting alone. There may be something to it, but really it just looks like some quack said, "Grains are evil!" because everything else had already been blamed for causing obesity and cancers.
We ended up choosing South Beach. We'll add in some BfL exercises, but it won't be a core component of our diet strategy. So tonight we'll do our best to contribute to a properly set up house. So I have to go and see if I can find any candy. Wouldn't want to leave that lying around for tomorrow, would I?
Yesterday before we went to the grocery store, she still hadn't decided on which diet we were going to do. On one hand, there is the South Beach Diet. We've done this before and lost weight doing it. Once we have our house set up properly (no tempting treats, plenty of nuts and veggies, good snack foods), it is actually pretty easy to maintain. The toughest part is going out to eat either at a friend's house or at a restaurant. But we have friends who are also doing South Beach and Oliver is getting too old to take to restaurants, so we're that much ahead of the game.
The other diet that we looked at was Body For Life. It's a diet and exercise program that emphasizes eating the right foods and working out the right way. We had done that one several years ago and done pretty well with it. The thing that we liked most about that one is that every week you have one "free" day where you can eat whatever it is that you want. It makes being good the rest of the week easier when you know that you only have so many days before you can be bad again. The biggest obstacle is the exercise program. It's as obvious as the flab on my gut that I need to start working out more, but it becomes difficult to find the time with a toddler in the house. We could exercise in the morning, but if we were both exercising and he woke up, we'd have to drop what we were doing to take care of him. Exercising at night after he's gone to sleep might end up being the solution, but it is so easy to make excuses.
My wife had looked at the Paleo Diet, but if she had picked that one she would have been dieting alone. There may be something to it, but really it just looks like some quack said, "Grains are evil!" because everything else had already been blamed for causing obesity and cancers.
We ended up choosing South Beach. We'll add in some BfL exercises, but it won't be a core component of our diet strategy. So tonight we'll do our best to contribute to a properly set up house. So I have to go and see if I can find any candy. Wouldn't want to leave that lying around for tomorrow, would I?
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